The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-18
BE FAIR AND HONEST.

The members of the Utah Commits
sion will meet in st. Louis next wee
when their annual report TO the Score
tary of the Interior will be made al
sion's reports have been reasonabl,
fair. considering all the circumstance
and the pressure brought upon thu
gentlemen to make them otherwise
Some statements have been made which
were not warranted by the facts anC
conditions, and certain recommends
tons were not intended for the best
good of the Territory. At times mem
bers of the Commission have manifest d
an unfriendly disposition towards the
people of Utah, and have permitted
their enmity TO show itself IN their
official utterances. Hitherto, however,
their reports have exercised compari-
lively little influence either on the
public or congressional mind. True,
the reports have gone to Con-
gress with other executive papers, and
been referred to mmittees, but if they
have been read, there the matter has
rested, as a rule.
On this occasion, however, we may
expect the report will excite unusual
interest, both in and out of Congress
and that greater importance will alta h
to it. Since the last report by the Com
mission a good deal of a revolution has
taken place IN this Territory. There
has been Il marked change in the social
and political sentiment and very de-
cided change in other respects. The
bitterness and hate which were e1-
perienced in greater or less degree by
every body a year ago, have been won
derfully sOftened and modified: people
who have hitherto pulled apart are
showing disposition to come together;
men who we're q short time ago work
ing for the destruction of Utah are now
employing themselves in the OPP
posie direction; while the com
munity yet lacks much OF
being united. there is a nearer
to harmony than has been
seen for long time, and 1t is apparent
to all that the disposition OF the grcst
majority on either side of the hitherto
is II the direction of peace.
Again, the people have formulated,
voted on and adopted State Constitu
ton, which is in itself good deal of
revolution. It proposes as condition
of Statehood, that the community shall
be placed in harmony with the senti-
ment of the nation at large as to certain
practices which have hitherto been
prevalent. A year ago such Constitu
zion would not have been thought of :,
but to-day it is thing of life and fact,
SO lar as the votes of the people can
give it existence and perpetuity.
When Congress shall assemble it will
find a changed condition of things
politically and socially and materially |
in this Territory, and there will be a |
turning to the report of the Utah |
Commission to learn the cause for |
this. There will also be a general desire |
to ascertain the Commissions ideas, |
views and recommendations as to this |
Territory, especially with reference to |
certain important movements now on |
foot, the chief being that looking to the |
admission of Utah into the Union. 1t |
is therefore with earnestness that THE
HERALD requests the Commission to be |
fair and truthful in its report, and to |
make only such representations as
friends would make. There is no |
reason why the Commission, or any
Of it, should not be friends to |
Utah, and advocate such things as will |
be for its best interest. There is GER
tainly no reason why the Commission |
should be an enemy to the Territory, or
why it should do anything which will |
be opposed to the welfare of the coun-
try. |
We do not ask that the report shall
favor the Territory more than the facts
will warrant. All we ask is that the
truth shall be told, that enmity and
malice shall not influence anything
that may be said, and that nothing
shall be stated or urged which will
have a tendency to check the progress
now apparent or in the least retard the
movement for good which has been
We have the right to ask
this much, ard the Commission has
not the right to do less than comply
with the request which is made in the
name of the bona fde residents of this
Territory.
DANA OF the Sun prescribes as cure
for Baconianism that the victim pur-
chase at once and read at one sitting
Bacon's New Atlantis. The cure, he
saws will be instant and fnal. You
can never again doubt that the New
Atlantis ami Lear are by different
authors.